I recently had to fix a customers HP Pavilion DV6 Laptop that was overheating and shutting down. Eventually these crashes will ruin your hard drive and who knows what else. These laptops are notorious for this. HP failed in the design by not providing enough cooling with the heat-sink and fan to handle the fast processor when running close to 100% generating a ton of heat. The Internet is a gift! You can find fixes for just about everything. Here are the 2 steps I found and I would take.

Step 1 (Easy) – Tune the power options to throttle the CPU slightly to keep it from overheating. This Video is perfect. Also, the notes below the video are the details of the setting changes you need to make. This will take you like 5 minutes. I ran a load test and before the change when I ran the laptop at 100% CPU it shutdown within 2 minutes. With this change it did not shutdown. VIDEO: HP DV6 Overheating [Solved] YouTube Video by Charlie Mac

Step 2 (more difficult) – The second step to take if the 1st step did not work is to pull the laptop apart and re-seat the Heat-sink on the CPU and GPU with new Thermal Grease. This is a bit tedious and will take you a couple hours or longer if you have never taken your laptop apart. If you are not comfortable doing this I will be glad to help you. Contact Joe

VIDEO: HP DV6 Overheating Laptop Repair YouTube Video by jgcertified

Buy Thermal Grease on eBay: Thermal Grease Paste Compound Silicone fr CPU Heat Sink

Recently I have run into more failing hard drives than I used to see. I run a short drive test and they pass, yet the system remains flaky even after a Tune-Up and Malware Removal. Replacing the hard drive has been the fix. For that reason I first backup most systems, unless they are really new, before I perform a Tune-Up and Malware Removal. Yes, it takes a lot of time, but that way I don’t lose my customers data! Which I really hate to do! – Joe

I believe Malware or Annoyanceware come from many places. Ads on Google and other sites, especially free software, games, coupon and music sites. Avoid Coupon sites, I think the printing services they install on your PC boarder on Malware and track your activity and influence your web searches.

1. Install a Good Antivirus\Antimalware like Bitdefender Free, Avast Free or Sophos Free on MACs. (malware refers to all threats, including viruses)

I personally like the free ones and I use Bitdefender Free. If you want a little extra protection, the pay version of these are excellent also and so is Webroot.

If you want a little extra pay protection download HitManPro 3 for a second opinion malware scanner. It is free for 30 days. I’ve found and eliminated threats with this that no other scanner found.

In a recent PC Mag report Bitdefender and Webroot ranked at the top of pay Antiviruses. I don’t like Norton or McAfee, they are too bloated and intrusive.

2. Run a full scan with your Antivirus once a month. These are usually manual. Most Antiviruses run quick scans on a regular basis, but never a full scan because it can take hours.

3. Once a Quarter or as needed

a. Run Free Adwcleaner

b. Run Malwarebytes Free 

c. Run Advanced System Care Free

d. After running them, uninstall all three so they don’t annoy you with upgrade requests etc.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Joe

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